"The Veil" is one of the more important pieces in “The Souls of Black Folk”. The veil is a metaphor for the separation of the black and white community and makes it so that only African-Americans existed within the veil. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk in order to try to get the white population to sympathize with African-Americans and realize the barriers they faced daily. It was from within this veil that the black population experienced oppression. While it was possible for the African-American population to understand life from within the veil and also outside of it, but it conceals the white population from the black world. Therefore, the Veil was not only a form of oppression, but also insight into the experience of an African-American.
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Tocqueville refers to mores as “the different notions possessed by men, the various opinions current among them, and the sum of ideas that shape mental habits" (Democracy in America, 86). Mores play an important in democratic societies because of the freedom that the people enjoy with a strong role of public- so strong that if someone’s opinion does not go along with the majority, that person believes that his opinion is wrong. This becomes a problem to society, because it people aren’t questioning other people’s ideas, then there is no progression to that community. Tocqueville believes that women have a crucial part of responsibility in democratic society due to their ability to shape societies’ mores- which is why it is important that women should have access to education. As Tocqueville remarks, "there have never been free societies without mores, and . . . it is women who shape these mores. Therefore everything which has a bearing on the status of women, their habits and their thoughts is, in my view, of great political importance." Since women take on the responsibility of being a mother, Tocqueville claims that the respect given to the establishment of marriage in a society has a great influence on the security of that society as a
Tocqueville refers to mores as “the different notions possessed by men, the various opinions current among them, and the sum of ideas that shape mental habits" (Democracy in America, 86). Mores play an important in democratic societies because of the freedom that the people enjoy with a strong role of public- so strong that if someone’s opinion does not go along with the majority, that person believes that his opinion is wrong. This becomes a problem to society, because it people aren’t questioning other people’s ideas, then there is no progression to that community. Tocqueville believes that women have a crucial part of responsibility in democratic society due to their ability to shape societies’ mores- which is why it is important that women should have access to education. As Tocqueville remarks, "there have never been free societies without mores, and . . . it is women who shape these mores. Therefore everything which has a bearing on the status of women, their habits and their thoughts is, in my view, of great political importance." Since women take on the responsibility of being a mother, Tocqueville claims that the respect given to the establishment of marriage in a society has a great influence on the security of that society as a